Californians for the Arts (CFTA) co-sponsored a reception (with Arts Orange County) to welcome Governor Jerry Brown’s newly-appointed Executive Director of the California Arts Council, Anne Bown-Crawford, at her first … Continue reading
Author Archives: Californians for the Arts
2018 Legislative Budget Cycle Begins for CA Arts Council: View the Presentation
At the September California Arts Council meeting at the California African American Museum in Los Angeles, its Director of Legislative Affairs, Kristin Margolis, presented an overview of the process and … Continue reading
California Arts Advocates Scores a Fifth Year of Gains for California Arts Council Funding – Help Us Keep the Momentum Going!
It’s a team effort, to be sure, but there is no denying that the intensive advocacy efforts by California Arts Advocates, our sister organization, played a major role in this … Continue reading
CFTA Elects Officers, New Board Members
Californians for the Arts held its annual meeting on Thursday, June 15 at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco on the eve of the Americans for … Continue reading
Federal Arts & Culture Funding Threatened! What you need to know & how you can help…
California Arts Advocates is vigorously opposing the Trump Administration’s proposed elimination of the National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, Institute for Museum & Library Services and … Continue reading
Sign the Petition to Protect the NEA
One of the strategies of the California Delegation is to bring all collected signatures from arts organizations and arts advocates across the state to our legislative visits as we work to protect … Continue reading
Know before your vote! School Board Candidates Survey Responses from CAAE…
Know before you vote! California Alliance for Arts Education has released the results of its Board of Education candidate surveys for the following School District elections. Follow this link to … Continue reading
Article about Jim Mayer’s talk at CONFLUENCE
We just received a link to this article about Confluence by Tracy Hudak on the California Forward blog! http://cafwd.org/reporting/entry-new/ca-fwd-connects-the-dots-with-leaders-from-california-arts-organizations Continue reading
Post-Confluence Survey
Did you attend Confluence 2016? You should have received an invitation yesterday to provide us with feedback via an online survey. If you didn’t, then please go to this link … Continue reading
Michael Kass’ Confluence Presentation Posted Here
Award-winning storyteller, facilitator and coach, Michael Kass offered an extraordinary workshop at CONFLUENCE 2016, STORYTELLING AND MAKING THE CASE FOR THE ARTS. He has shared with us his PowerPoint presentation. Here … Continue reading